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Massive encroachment by Bezos into The Washington Post’s opinion section - makes clear dissenting views will not be published I still have not felt encroachment on my journalism on the news side, but if Bezos tries interfering with the news side I will be quitting immediately and letting you know

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A Southwest Airlines plane was forced to abort its landing this morning after a private jet taxied in front of it across the runway at Midway Airport in Chicago. Whatever that guy from The Real World is doing with the FAA has gotta stop.

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This issue deserves way more attention* than it's getting! (*understandable given current massive demands on public/media/lawmakers' attention, but still)

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Related: DOGE just rehired White House proof-readers

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"Trump’s political appointees can delete the words 'climate change'... but they can’t erase the risks that a warming climate poses in the forms of more frequent floods, intense heat and explosive wildfires ... Reality, as the saying goes, always bats last." www.post-gazette.com/opinion/Op-E...

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I'm ALSO extremely honored that GASLIGHT is one of five finalists for the New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism. (Doubly grateful to NYPL, my favorite library of all time, which named GASLIGHT one of its best books of 2024.) www.nypl.org/press/new-yo...

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I'm truly honored that my book GASLIGHT has been named winner of the 2025 Reed Environmental Writing Award presented by @selc.bsky.social. Its David v. Goliath tale of grassroots power overcoming corporate energy interests seems more relevant than ever. www.southernenvironment.org/news/celebra...

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Tapping the sign 👇 www.nytimes.com/2024/05/13/o...

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DOGE in practice: Disabled Army veteran who has 4 kids and did 3 tours overseas is fired from his job at Bronx VA hospital

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https://wapo.st/4gKs5FY

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New: Last night, hundreds of CDC post-doc fellows were fired, including all in the group who call themselves the "disease detectors," and are the future of public health lab leaders. One senior official told me, "It is going to cripple public health for decades." www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

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On Friday night, HHS ordered CDC to take down all flu vaccine campaign materials from its website. Materials are starting to come down. For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now Meanwhile...

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Scientists think there's a decent chance that, if global temps rise 2 degrees above pre-industrial levels, it could trigger a cascade of tipping points that further accelerate warming, up to 5 or 6 degrees. AKA: "A cluster of abrupt shifts occur in ESMs [Earth system models] at 1.5 to 2ºC."

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Scoop: The databases powering DOGE.gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it: www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

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And heeeere we go... Time to start changing all those passwords. Right after you schedule all your vaccination updates.

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The "Gulf of America" kerfuffle is Trump 2.0 version of Trump 1.0 inauguration crowd size lies. That quickly triggered mockery, viral SNL parodies and a unified front of 'this is obviously nuts' coverage across media. We'll see how times have changed, and if AP's response galvanizes other outlets.

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This comment on r/fednews really stood out to me. Trump and Musk want people to think they're firing do-nothing "bureaucrats," but they're really getting rid of people dedicated to serving this country and keeping it operational. I hope these stories get told.

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NOAA is probably best known for pumping out local forecasts through its National Weather Service -- but the agency does much more than that. A quick primer from me + @weathersullivan.bsky.social (free link): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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“If they wanted to bureaucratically kill politically disfavored science this would be the ideal way to do it without a big attention-getting announcement." This reporting is reinforcing fears that vital collaborative climate science is at risk, as I laid out here: open.substack.com/pub/theupwel...

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The oil and gas industry keeps gleefully cashing in their chips after the $450 million bet they placed on Trump's campaign.

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Horrific. Reporters are beginning to collect the names of specific people that Musk and Trump have killed by abruptly terminating USAID—in this case Pe Kha Lau, a Burmese woman living in Thailand

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⚡️ The historic moment of Estonia leaving the Russian-fed power grid. On February 8, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia left Russia and Belarus energy system. By the end of the day today, they will have joined the European grid.

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The magnitude of the current size of the #Arctic sea ice extent anomaly is unheard of in the satellite-era record for the deep winter season months. Data from nsidc.org/data/seaice_...

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"Trump's actions ... are not a measured reappraisal of US priorities. They are a sweeping and damaging attack on the health of the American people and those dependent on US foreign assistance... and on the health and medical research community." — @thelancet.bsky.social not any mincing words.

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So many reasons why freezing NOAA communications with colleagues abroad is dangerous. @katharinehayhoe.com points to a big one. I wrote about another: the risk of disrupting long-running super-precise GHG measurement work of NOAA Global Monitoring Lab scientists. open.substack.com/pub/theupwel...

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This would be a world historic self-own.

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“The president is openly violating the law & Constitution on a daily basis”- @brendannyhan.bsky.social messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/dynamic/rend... “We’re talking about the idea of whether the president has to follow the law at all. I never thought I’d have to say [that] about the US.”

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Instead of leading with the illegality of what Trump is doing, here's the NYT framing his premeditated assault on the Constitution like it's El Nino or some other agentless phenomenon: "an imbalance of power" "checks and balance break down" Must be hard for @nytpitchbot.bsky.social to keep up.

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Paging Michael Lewis...

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DOE's general counsel and IT offices told DOE Sec. Chris Wright that giving DOGE rep Luke Farritor IT access was a "bad idea" bc he hadn’t had a standard background investigation needed to access the department’s system, per a source. Wright granted him access anyways. www.cnn.com/2025/02/06/c...

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This is evil. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

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Rubio claims that @USAID lifesaving assistance for health and humanitarian needs will continue. But his team just communicated that the entire agency will be imminently reduced from 14,000 to 294 people. Just 12 in Africa.

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By definition, numerical weather models require international data. The atmosphere knows no geopolitical boundaries: any model that begins and ends at its country’s border is unable to generate reliable predictions until after a weather system crosses its boundaries. Which defeats the purpose!

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Mind-boggling wreckage. Among the lifesaving programs now disrupted by Elon’s attack on @USAID: phase 1 trials for a possible HIV vaccine.

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We just had the hottest January ever recorded. Even as the US government began erasing any mention of climate change from agency websites and policy guidance. Future historians will write entire books about the month of January 2025.* (*using Wayback Machine archives in their underground bunkers)

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Preventing NOAA workers from talking to colleagues abroad is profoundly dangerous. It threatens basic weather and storm forecasting functions that industries, governments and individuals rely on every day. And it undermines essential climate data gathering efforts: open.substack.com/pub/theupwel...

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After Helene, Trump's lies about FEMA's response fed conspiracy theories that forced NOAA to create a dedicated website to debunk claims that NOAA "modifies the weather” and "steers hurricanes into specific communities.” And now Musk's extremely online interns have the keys to NOAA's web presence.

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The U.S. #NationalWeatherService, housed within #NOAA, is a truly world-class meteorological predictive service, perhaps singularly so. It costs only ~$3/yr per taxpayer, & yields ~10:1 return on investment--saving economy 10s-100s of billions, not to mention thousands of lives.

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Counterpoint:

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Essential analysis from @abrahm.bsky.social. Climate risk upending housing markets is 1 of biggest stories of our time. As I wrote in 2023 for @nybooks.com the American Dream "is built on the premise that you can always turn your house back into money. What happens when that’s no longer guaranteed?"

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Scoop: The Trump admin has quietly issued stop work orders on projects funded under contracts with the Energy Department that reference community benefit plans, an attempt to target a crucial part of Biden’s environmental justice legacy cc @heatmap.news heatmap.news/politics/tru...

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we were promised flying cards and jetpacks. instead we got hallucinating chatbots and AI-slop books flooding libraries

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More than 8,000 web pages across more than a dozen U.S. government websites have been taken down since Friday afternoon, a NYT analysis found. The purges have removed info about vaccines, veterans' care, hate crimes, and scientific research, among many other topics. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...

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Very useful (and alarming) thread keeping tabs on the ongoing erasure of taxpayer-funded research and data across the federal government:

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